By: Barrientos S.B. No. 1352
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to course credits offered under an agreement between a
1-2 school district and a junior college.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 130.008, Education Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 130.008. COURSES FOR JOINT HIGH SCHOOL AND JUNIOR
1-7 COLLEGE CREDIT. (a) Under an agreement with a school district, a
1-8 public junior college may offer a course in which a student
1-9 attending a high school operated by the school district may enroll
1-10 and for which the student may simultaneously receive both:
1-11 (1) course credit toward the student's high school
1-12 academic requirements [for graduation]; and
1-13 (2) course credit as a student of the junior college,
1-14 if the student has been admitted to the junior college or becomes
1-15 eligible to enroll in and is subsequently admitted to the junior
1-16 college.
1-17 (b) The junior college may waive the tuition fee for a high
1-18 school student enrolled in a course for which the student may
1-19 receive joint credit under this section.
1-20 (c) The contact hours attributable to the enrollment of a
1-21 high school student in a course offered for joint high school and
1-22 junior college credit under this section shall be included in the
1-23 contact hours used to determine the junior college's proportionate
1-24 share of the state money appropriated and distributed to public
2-1 junior colleges under Sections 130.003 and 130.0031, even if the
2-2 junior college waives the tuition fee for the student under
2-3 Subsection (b).
2-4 (d) For instances when state funding is provided to both a
2-5 school district and a public junior college for a student enrolled
2-6 in courses offered by a junior college under Subsection (a), the
2-7 commissioner of education and the commissioner of higher education
2-8 shall jointly develop a mechanism to identify and eliminate
2-9 duplication of state funding.
2-10 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-11 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.